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| DraimanBelieve:
So I came across this site through looking at auctions for GBA games on ebay. Some guy was selling a Castlevania GBA game with custom cover art in a DS case and said "thanks to thecoverproject.net" so I checked this site out and its awesome. This is my 1st post on this forum so hi everybody. Not very experienced with this kind of stuff I have done photo printing and I have a Cannon Pixma i2600 which is $30 photo printer. It prints really good photos on the highest settings. I just bought some of this legal paper and I printed out a Final Fantasy III DS cover on it and it looks awesome. I have encountered no bleeding and so far it looks awesome eventhough my printer is no high tech laser printer that costed me $500. The website to buy this paper off of is www.redriverpaper.com they sell Glossy 32 LB (125 gsm) and they also have 50 LB Matte (185 gsm) legal paper. I bought the Glossy photo paper kind and that came with 100 sheets and is perfect for printing out covers. My only issue right now is I am out of ink and was lucky to get off that 1 cover. I did order the optional Photo black and color photo cartridges (currently using regular sized ink cartridges not the photo kind) for my printer for $40 I should be getting it later on today when the mail comes. I also bought a case of those UGCs from mediashelving.com for $42 plus like $22 shipping. I have over 80 game cartridges 30 of which are NES games. Another thing if anyone here knows of a really good tool to use for modifying these cases I would be very happy. I tried an Xacto Knife and did 1 case in about an hour. I ended up cutting the crap out of my thumb with it and so I called it quits on that Xacto method. The dremel method is out cause its too dangerous and it would just tear the case up anyways. The Soldering Iron method is horrible, it works but it smells god awful and the fumes I am pretty sure are poisonous and can kill you. I tried toe nail clippers and those do work to an extent but its a slow process. Idk of any other really great methods but there has to be a much easier way than using a damn Dremel or Soldering Iron. I love the site and its awesome and now I have a storage method for all those game cartridges I keep buying. |
| Mick Dundee:
I used my Dremel with a "Cutting" bit. Looked like a Chubby small saw blade. I also Used a Razor Knife... not an exacto blade.....heavier duty, made for more constructive things, bigger handle. Your first 1 or 2 will not come out perfect... but that's normal. Once you get the hang of it, you will be able to cut up a few within minutes. Practice makes perfect |
| Ragnarok2103:
they best thing i've found for modding cases is just using a pair of wire snips and just grabbing it and twisting the excesses pieces out. its not quite as clean, but it works and you dont cut yourself. heres a picture of what i use http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x192/Ragnarok2103/snips.jpg |
| juan0tron:
hah you found this site through ebay? That's actually pretty awesome, one of my friends has been using this site for a while but still hasn't joined. (Which was surprising because I hadn't even told him about it yet when he told me) |
| XanderBoy:
I also use red river paper. I use their 50 lb. Premium Matte C2S double sided paper. I ended up investing in a pretty heavy duty xacto knife to give clean cuts for the print-outs. I use the same heavy duty xacto knife to cut nintendo ds cases to fit GBA manuals. I'm not sure what your knife is like, but maybe try investing in a really good quality knife if you don't have one already. It may take a while, but it's safe and pretty low risk. |
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